Apr. 6—For the past 12 weeks, five boxers at Booyah Boxing have been getting ready for Devon Alexander's Amateur Boxing Invitational Classic in St. Louis. Boxing coach Melissa Drywater is sending ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Kendell Louis first took up boxing as a freshman at Parkway Academy as a self-defense mechanism.

There certainly is a roll call of names like Rocky Marciano, then Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and now in the present Wladimir Klitschko, ...

St. Louis’ Leon Calvin Boxing Gym will ring in the holiday season with a Christmas boxing show Dec. 7. This boxing show aims to foster holiday spirit while raising awareness for Parkinson’s disease.

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The life and legacy of legendary boxer Joe Louis was celebrated in a tribute Friday night. Over 70 years since his last fight and over 40 years since he passed away in southern ...

An eight foot bronze statue of “The Brown Bomber” Joe Louis will be unveiled Saturday in the International Boxing Hall of Famer’s hometown of LaFayette, Alabama. Residents of the town of approximately ...

Don’t let Heath Norton's stoic stare intimidate you; he's a great trainer as well as an athlete. As general manager and owner of Title Boxing Club Rock Hill, Heath Norton is taking the boxing world by ...

The Detroit recreation center where Joe Louis once trained is listed for demolition, reports the Detroit Free Press. The building, the Brewster Wheeler Recreation Center, closed in the early 2000s and ...

There was a time in late March when it appeared the Brigade Boxing Championships might not happen this year. A restriction of movement order remained in place at the Naval Academy, which meant all ...

There had only been 22 four-time champions in the history of the Brigade Boxing Championships, which have been held at the Naval Academy since 1942. So difficult was the feat that it wasn’t until 1970 ...

Kendell Louis first took up boxing as a freshman at Parkway Academy as a self-defense mechanism. “At first, it was just to get the bullies off my back. I just wanted to learn the basics of how to ...